The great religious poetry of R. S. Thomas and the poetry of the former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams is rooted in a remarkable late-twentieth-century tradition of spiritual poetry in Wales that includes figures as different as Saunders Lewis and Vernon Watkins, Waldo Williams and Bobi Jones. Examining this body of work in detail, the present study demonstrates how the different theological outlooks of the poets was reflected in their choice of form, style and vocabulary, highlighting a literary culture that was highly unusual in its rejection of a prevailing secularisation in the UK, Western Europe and the USA.
Table of Content
1. Introduction: An Unfashionable Tradition
2. ‘Traffic-less Emmaeus’: Saunders Lewis
3. ‘The flashed mystery of the moving world’: Vernon Watkins
4. ‘Enfysu’/ Rainbowing: Euros Bowen
5. Gwenallt: the Hieronymous Bosch of Wales
6. Waldo Williams: King in Exile
7. Bobi Jones: Court Poet to the Almighty
8. Three Poets
9. R.S.Thomas and the Tradition
10. Epilogue: the Case of Rowan Williams
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